Darling to announce progress on 10-Year Transport Plan
10:40 17 Dec 2002
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Transport secretary Alistair Darling is today (Tuesday) expected
to scale back plans to boost rail use and cut car congestion in his
progress report to the Commons this afternoon on the government's
£180bn 10-Year Transport Plan. |
According to the political website ePolitix, Downing Street has already conceded that there was "considerable improvements" to be made with the plan and that "it would take a long time to put right".
Yesterday the Confederation of British Industry estimated that rising costs may have increased the cost of the transport plan from £180 billion to £195 billion, mainly due to the state of the railways.
Gwyneth Dunwoody, chairman of the Commons transport committee, was quoted over the weekend that any further reductions in train services would be unacceptable.